ROMAN MARRIAGE Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian Very Good

Oxford University Press, 1993

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Year of publication

1993

Author

Treggiari, Susan

Publishers

Oxford University Press

Keyword

Roman History Women's Studies Classical Greek & Roman Marriage &, Family Social & Cultural

Cover description

Very Good

Binding description

Softcover ISBN 0198149395

Description

Creasing along spine. Some wear to corners of wraps. Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). A few pages corner creased. ; Clarendon Paperbacks; 578 pages; This book explores the practicalities, cultural assumptions, and affective possibilities of marriage during the later Republic and the Principate. It offers a fresh look at the interaction of law and reality within Roman marriage, and builds on the accumulation of legal scholarship in the field, as well as on the the latest insights into Roman society. Treggiari demonstrates that marriage affected a Roman woman's social status, and that while the socio-legal effect on a man was far less striking, marriage did enable a man to father legitimate children, the main object of the institution. The study also addresses the influences on the choice of partner, behavioral norms, and motives for divorce.